The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1887-02-12
WATER EVERYWHERE.
THE TOWN OF LYONS, MICH, IN
UNDATED.
People Compelled to Live In the Up.
per Stories Of Their Houses
and to
NAVIGATE THE STREETS IN
SMALL BOATS.
The LaHtiHg Ice Gorge About to
Break aud sweep Down Merci-
lessly Upon the Town.

DETROIT, Mich, Februsry 11.-An
Evening Journal special from Lyons
says: The fl cd ere is simply terri
BILE. A pane has seiz I'd some Of the
people at d it is impossible to get esi'
mates OF losses. The wafer 10 some
places is four feet deep in many resi-
dences, and the same state OF sffairs
prevails in storerooms Everybody Is
moving or preparing to move. Last
night YVES the mos, exciting the viii
lage has ever experien ed. Up to last
night three buildings had been
washed away and demolished and
many others we're bdly damaged
Alexander NJ FsIlsre 's family are
sick and cut fl from assistance. The
Herald flee has been boated 10 higher
quarters, but tie paper will be pub
lished as usual. At Muir the SINE
serious conditions prevail and mer
chants have abandoue d their stoTes.
Specials to Il e Euening Journal from
other points are to he same effect
but Lyons tes ms to be the worsi sui
ferer. Fred Winters, of Charlotte,
YVES drowned when trying to
cross the Tno,n Ample river
Three Rivers is surrounded with
water. All tie shops have been
closed at thar point. The immense
lumb piles OF Roberts, Tnnrp < Co.
and those be oDging to Vosburg are
ahoat. The Ltke shore tack ia in
great danger of being washed away.
At OwCsso six inches of snow fell
last night, and tie river is still rising.
The Journals Monroe special says:
The Ralsin river has been slowly Tis-
ing for the past twenty-four hours,
but the ice has broken, giving a fires
passage 10 the lake. The banks of
the river are lined with immense
walls of ice ard f,oEsn snow, rising
eight or ten feet above the present
high water mark, aud great fields OF
ice OF the same thickness fill all the
streets adjacent to the river.
The Eyering Journals Jackson spe.
cial says: The pres ure of water in the
Grand river ia the mill pond above
the city was too great, and last night
the sluices were opened will the result
that the water rose several feet and the
Grand Tjunk bridse ia now under
wafer. the Hurd Hotel basement has
two feet of water in it. Csllsr3 in
business b orks in the center of the
town are all flooded from eighteen
inches to two feet aud half. The
State Fair Grounds are completely
submerged, and on the large tract OF
land in the southern part of the city,
known as Mitcheil's addition, the
water is up to the A ors OF the dwell
ings. The prison walls stand in the
midst of a lake. The Davis Hotel
barns have three feet of water in
them and the horses have been re.
moved.
A slight abatement of the food was
noticed last night, but it is on in all
its force this morning Rain fell in
torrents until about midnight when it
changed to snow, and by daylight
fully eight inches Of snow and sleet
had fallen. There is u regular north
easter wi, twenty mile wind. The
four hours and is still rising, The peo-
pie are worn out working night and
day to save their property. The Ma.
pie and Grand rivers unite hers and
both are raging. At this hour Ql:30
am. it is impossible to give COM
plete estimate of the damage done.
Should the LANSING ice reach here be-
fore the gorge gives wsy, all the bust
ness places on the north side of Main
street will be washed away. A rough
estimate of the damsge makes the fg-
gregate between $4,000 and 100000.